Saturday, June 11, 2011 | By: GirlsWannaRead

One, Two, Theme! Reading Challenge

     We have decided to add yet another challenge to our plate this year! We are a few months late starting this year-long challenge, but there's always time to read more books.


     For this challenge, we've picked several themes. For the first theme, you read one book; the second has two but one must be non-fiction; the third has three; and on and on. Here are our themes and some of the books we plan to read:

Frances ~
1)     Books About Books
      Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill

2)     Left-Handedness (Including Books by Left-Handed Authors)

3)     Trains
      The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia - Paul Theroux
      Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene

4)     Cornwall
      Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
      Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
     
5)     Literary France (1920s-1930s)
      Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties - Noel Riley Fitch
    
      
Rose ~
1)     Physics
      The Science of Doctor Who - Paul Parsons

2)     Australia
       The History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

3)     Scandinavia
       D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths - Ingri d'Aulaire

4)     The Art of Wit
       The Bodley Head - Saki
       Wodehouse
       The Fine Art of Political Wit - Leon A. Harris

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